L39 @ YTDN this weekend
 

If anyone is interested in seeing an L39 up close and personal operating a large number of adventure flights, there will be one at Tooradin this weekend. Sure, it's not an FA18 but it should be appropriately noisy!

PS: for those that are wondering, yes the runway IS long enough for it :)

What days/times will it be at YTDN?

Any idea of costs?

Weather won't be the best this weekend.

Is that the JetRide one by any chance?

If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it :ok:

Must be this place:

JetFighter Rides - Australia's Advanced Jet Fighter Operation Hunter Valley-Matty Johns Show

Seems to cost $2k for 20 minutes, which is a bit over the odds I think. Would have expected $1,200 to $1,500 an hour.

Allowing for time to take off, climb to 8,000ft, descend and land, there is not much time left out of 20 minutes.

Fri, sat and sun with 50+ flights booked apparently. It's being run by Phillip Island helicopters but on Adrenaline I think. I think it's from the Hunter Valley but I'm really not sure.

XXX, Cessnock I think...:ok: (IF it is indeed the L-39 I think you are talking about)

Yep, 3 ex-Scone ratbags having more fun than could possibly be legal. :ok:

Gotta be a law against it somewhere :E

20 minute adventure flight in one of these babies out of Goolwa 40 minutes south of Adelaide will set you back $2,400. Worth every penny!

FRQ CB

50+ flights?
that's 16+ per day, of about 25 mins each, non-stop, no refuelling time, no strap-in and cockpit briefing time, no start-up/shut downs, man those guys are going to be busy.:eek::ok:

Actually I think it's 60 flights :-)

Around $6-7k in brake pads over the weekend. Who said aircraft were cheap to operate!

I wouldn't like much to be in it the day the noise stops. ;)

Don't think you really need to worry about the engine the Ivchenco AI-25Tl is a remarkably robust if slightly fuel hungry engine over 6000 produced and TBO 4000 hours in military service.

Are the seats live? If not I wouldn't go anywhere near it. On the other hand of course, the average passenger should be nowhere near a live seat.

Cost?

It should be at an appropriate level that rewards the bloke for the considerable business risk they're undertaking (Insurance, maintenance, wages, profit)

You want to come home safe at the end of it all, pay them the money that it takes to provide a safe operation.

Two grand for what will be the experience of a lifetime for some people? Cheap at twice the price :ok:

Its my understanding that none of the L39's operating in Australia have live seats.

Hence my comments about not wanting to be there when the noise stops.

I stand to be corrected of course.

L39s seats in OZ are not live. Imagine the damage inflicted (even if the pilot is the one able to pull the curtain) on a passenger who is looking down or bending over emptying his/her lunch into the paper handbag.

HELP ME JEEBUS!

FRQ CB

I was watching it take off today. Just imagined to myself a flameout 3/4 down the runway.... The pilot would be thinking "my legs, my legs" as there is not much in front of you when you hit something as you plough off the end.

How are the locals handling the extra noise? Usually the phone at the local flying school or Council will ring all day with complaints when a jet starts operating in the area.

Although they stop complaining when they see how extra business walks in from the jet clients and their families/onlookers wanting to buy lunch and petrol etc.

Hope it works well for them and they come back.

They may have robust Ivchenco engines, but nothing travels well after sitting on a rotten row in some Eastern European country for however long until someone puts it in a container and sends it to Aus ready for its flash paint job. As aeroplanes go they would make great coke cans.

The only non-military live bang seats in Australia are at Temora I think.